Question

Please help with this question.

Answer 1

Okay if I made the numbers easy like, 5 pencils every 1/4 of an hour, could you answer that logically?

Answer 2

yes, by multiplying 5 by 4 to get 20 pencils per hour.

Answer 3

yeah so what you're actually doing is dividing the number of pencils by the hour.

5 / 1/4

Answer 4

oh so 14 / 4/9

Answer 5

And do you know what to do in that case?

Answer 6

which is 7/18

Answer 7

What I was going to say Erak! :)
But you can also think of it as the rate
\[\frac{ 14 }{ \frac{ 4 }{ 9 }hour }\]
And that is literally telling you to divide 14 by 4/9.

Answer 8

So if you look at it like
\[14 \div \frac{ 4 }{ 9 }\]

Do you know how to simplify it

Answer 9

actually 63/2

Answer 10

thank you

Answer 11

Yeah that's right, so you'd probably answer that like 31.5 pencils